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Sipping cocktails in Saigon  
   

Sipping cocktails in Saigon

This old hotel looks just like how I imagine it did during the War. I can just picture all the foreign correspondents partying it up here
On the bumpy road to Saigon

May 13th 2009
Hectic Hanoi After a whirlwind 12h in Kuala Lumpur where we had a stop over in between our excellent and very cheap Air Asia flights we touched down in Hanoi in Northern Vietnam. Although I have been to a few Asian cities I must admit Hanoi is by far the least Westernised of the lot. The city seems to be a maze of tiny roads where thousands of motorbike criss cross and tut along in what ... read more
Asia » Vietnam » South Central Coast » Quảng Nam » Hoi An

Vietnamese Flag The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more
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